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Famous Quotes

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

Bertrand Russell on Fear

More quotes about Fear

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

Bertrand Russell on John F. Kennedy

"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."

Bertrand Russell on Audrey Hepburn

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

Bertrand Russell on Thomas Paine

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

Bertrand Russell on Jim Morrison

"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."

Bertrand Russell on Jiddu Krishnamurti

More quotes by Bertrand Russell

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."